Dave strongly recommends Baseball and the Garden of Eden by John Thorne, which he says is much more than a book about baseball and that people who aren’t into sports will love it, too. He convinced me, it’s on my to-read list now.

Thank you for mentioning authors in your novels. What a blast I had with Jim Butcher’s “Codex Alera.” You mentioned Jim, Kate, and Johnny wrestling for the same book. That roused my curiosity to the extent of checking the books out from the library. Great satisfaction all round.